context: use a the nofsauditor when matching file in history (issue4749) Before this change, asking for file from history (eg: 'hg cat -r 42 foo/bar') could fail because of the current content of the working copy (eg: current "foo" being a symlink). As the working copy state have no influence on the content of the history, we can safely skip these checks. The working copy context class have a different 'match' implementation. That implementation still use the repo.auditor will still catch symlink traversal. I've audited all stuff calling "match" and they all go through a ctx in a sensible way. The most unclear case was diff which still seemed okay. You raised my paranoid level today and I double checked through tests. They behave properly. The odds of someone using the wrong (matching with a changectx for operation that will eventually touch the file system) is non-zero because you are never sure of what people will do. But I dunno if we can fight against that. So I would not commit to "never" for "at this level" and "in the future" if someone write especially bad code. However, as a last defense, the vfs itself is running path auditor in all cases outside of .hg/. So I think anything passing the 'matcher' for buggy reason would growl at the vfs layer.

  $ addcommit () {
  >     echo $1 > $1
  >     hg add $1
  >     hg commit -d "${2} 0" -m $1
  > }

  $ commit () {
  >     hg commit -d "${2} 0" -m $1
  > }

  $ hg init a
  $ cd a
  $ addcommit "A" 0
  $ addcommit "B" 1
  $ echo "C" >> A
  $ commit "C" 2

  $ hg update -C 0
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ echo "D" >> A
  $ commit "D" 3
  created new head

Merging a conflict araises

  $ hg merge
  merging A
  warning: conflicts while merging A! (edit, then use 'hg resolve --mark')
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 1 files unresolved
  use 'hg resolve' to retry unresolved file merges or 'hg update -C .' to abandon
  [1]

Correct the conflict without marking the file as resolved

  $ echo "ABCD" > A
  $ hg commit -m "Merged"
  abort: unresolved merge conflicts (see "hg help resolve")
  [255]

Mark the conflict as resolved and commit

  $ hg resolve -m A
  (no more unresolved files)
  $ hg commit -m "Merged"

  $ cd ..